scholarly journals Development of the “literary evolution” concept by Yuri Tynyanov in the works of Sergei Averintsev

ENTHYMEMA ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 160-170
Author(s):  
Alexander Markov
Keyword(s):  
Western Literature ◽  
Russian Formalism ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ancient Philosopher ◽  
Parallel Series

Since the concept of “literary evolution” proposed by Yuri Tynyanov could not be applied to the late Soviet official literature, Sergei Averintsev using this concept examined the relationship between philosophy, sophistry, rhetorics and everyday consciousness in classical Greece. Tynyanov's theory of “parallel series” turned out to be productive for the reconstruction of the tasks of the ancient philosopher and for the interpretation of Plato's dialogues. According Averintsev, Plato acted within the sophistic field, creating irreducible terminology and untranslatable phrases as a moment of the entire further evolution of Western literature. Consideration of Russian formalism as the context of Averintsev's thought proves his contribution to the discussion of Platonism as a tool for posing philosophical problems and of the perspective of philosophy in the postcolonial discussion.

Gender relations in the classical Greek household: the archaeological evidence

1995 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 363-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. Nevett
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Detailed Model ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Domestic Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Household Members ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Shed Light

Despite the amount of textual material surviving from classical Greece, our knowledge of the household has remained limited because of the selectivity and orientation of those texts. In this paper, archaeological remains of late 5th- to late 4th-cent. houses are explored in order to shed light on aspects of domestic relations that recur most frequently in the sources: the relationship between male and female household members, and the way in which this was reinforced through the organization of the domestic environment. The traditional picture of a house divided into male and female areas is an over-simplification of a complex pattern of social relationships. A broader approach focuses on interaction between men and women, rather than on women's activity in isolation. The resultant, more detailed model for gender relations offers a glimpse of variability through space and time in how relationships were expressed spatially, and suggests the possibility of differences in the relationships themselves at different levels of the social hierarchy.

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Secular Vocal Performance in Early Wales

2009 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-183
Author(s):  
Christopher Macklin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Vocal Performance ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Musical Cultures ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThere are many historical repertories of interest for which documentary evidence is scant. In such areas traditional models of musicological research, driven by notation, may be of limited use, and there is thus a need to develop alternative formulations for the relationship between the performance, the performer and the text. In this study, textual analysis and ethnographic comparisons of structurally similar performance cultures (namely, classical Greece and Rome and bardic traditions of south-eastern Europe and eastern Africa) are combined to examine one such tradition: the secular music of the bards of medieval and early-modern Wales. Contemporary accounts pertaining to this repertory are characterized by a systematic ambiguity in their description of speech and song, and a selective use of musical notation for instrumental but not vocal figuration. Comparisons with other musical cultures that share this ambiguity lead to the development of a model of performance that accounts for these textual features.

scholarly journals Changing Spaces: Canonization of Anglophone World Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractCanonization, understood broadly as the complex processes in which some works and authors obtain a privileged position in literary culture, while others become less and less visible, takes place continually in the interplay between preferences among readers, critics and institutions. These can now be studied better thanks to new digital resources and social media. The canonization of world literatures is particularly complex as it traverses notions of national canons and sits uneasily between integration with Western literature and a counter-canonical stance. This article considers the uses of a differentiated view on canonization and how data resources that have been made available on the circulation and readership of authors can be used to qualify canonization. The relationship between the locally and globally oriented Anglophone writers and the growing importance of migrant writers is investigated, as well as the influence of world literature in English which is included for its influence not only on Anglophone canons but also canons of non-English literary cultures.

scholarly journals The Meaning of the Snake in the Ancient Greek World

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Diana Rodríguez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Greek World ◽  
Archaic And Classical Greece ◽  
Previous Scholarship

Despite playing no meaningful practical role in the lives of the ancient Greeks, snakes are ubiquitous in their material culture and literary accounts, in particular in narratives which emphasise their role of guardian animals. This paper will mainly utilise vase paintings as a source of information, with literary references for further elucidation, to explain why the snake had such a prominent role and thus clarify its meaning within the cultural context of Archaic and Classical Greece, with a particular focus on Athens. Previous scholarship has tended to focus on dualistic opposites, such as life/death, nature/culture, and creation/destruction. This paper argues instead that ancient Greeks perceived the existence of a special primordial force living within, emanating from, or symbolised by the snake; a force which is not more—and not less—than pure life, with all its paradoxes and complexities. Thus, the snake reveals itself as an excellent medium for accessing Greek ideas about the divine, anthropomorphism, and ancestry, the relationship between humans, nature and the supernatural, and the negotiation of the inevitable dichotomy of old and new.

scholarly journals The Scope of Philosophical Conceptualisation of Music in Classical Greece

Literatūra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Šarūnas Šavėla
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Musical Thinking ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Broad Understanding

This article addresses the concept of music (μουσική), the problematics of its definition and ambiguities of its conceptual content. Here we discuss the philosophical treatises of Classical Greece, question the conflicting values attributed to the phenomenon of music, and analyse the relationship between music and text in a musical-poetical performance. Due to the very broad understanding of what music is and how it functions, the philosophical treatises discuss music both as a practice that corresponds to the divine laws of kosmos and as an activity of doubtful significance. Such opposing values attributed to musical practices render the discussion of the phenomenon in its entirety more difficult. This article proposes reconsidering the approaches towards musical thinking, musical practices, and literary texts that were followed by music, suggests to distinguish the conceptual layers based on the different meanings of the term, and to analyse these layers in a clearly defined, yet interlinked, way.

Image, Text, and Story in the Recovery of Helen

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Hedreen
Keyword(s):  
Visual Representations ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Theoretical Assumption ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pictorial Representations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Close Fit

Ancient Greek visual representations of the recovery of Helen by Menelaos are generally thought to depend closely on two distinct poetic sources. This paper argues that this belief is untenable. The principal theoretical assumption underlying it, that there will always be a close fit between ancient Greek poetic and artistic representations of a given story, is not the only conceivable relationship between poetry and art in Archaic and Early Classical Greece. The empirical evidence advanced to support the belief, the occurrence of similar motifs in both the poetic sources and the visual representations, is strained: scholars have read into the pictures motifs or intentions, including nudity and seduction, that are known from literature but have not been given unambiguous visual form in the pictures. This paper argues that the relationship between the artistic and literary representations of the recovery of Helen is much more distant and less direct than most scholars have thought. The same general story underlies all the pictorial representations of the subject in the Archaic and Early Classical periods, but no specific poetic source was necessarily behind the story circulating among the artists. This study draws attention, in particular, to methods of storytelling that are unique to the visual arts. It addresses in detail one of the most striking and problematic aspects of the iconography of the recovery of Helen, the variety of physical settings of the event, and argues that the pictorial elements of setting provide important narrative information that verbal narratives would convey in a different way.

Gentiles Are Not Barbarians

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Ophir ◽  
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Keyword(s):  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter compares the Jew-goy distinction to another binary opposition functioning in Mediterranean antiquity, usually considered both older and similar: the Greek-barbarian one. After following the traces that this contrast has left in Jewish texts, primarily in Paul and in Tannaitic literature, the chapter compares and contrasts these two discursive formations, shedding light on the uniqueness of the Jew-goy distinction. With the aid of new studies on the concept of “barbarians” in classical Greece and Hellenistic cultures it reconstructs the relationship between the two oppositions and their different functions. Unlike the barbarian, which exists in shifting discursive, legal, and ideological terrains and is always open for negotiations, the goy remains a closed and stable rabbinic formation, a perfect performative reflection of their discursive strategies and structure of separation.

scholarly journals Socrates – his philosophy and dialogical method

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ancient Philosopher ◽  
At Will

In this article I look at the life of Socrates and his philosophy for a bit. Putting spiritual values to the forefront, Socrates considered their creation as the main goal of human life. And since, according to Socrates, spiritual blessings are not transmitted in finished form from one person to another, but are revealed and acquired in the search, in the study of oneself and others, in “taking care of the soul”, so far the rejection of such a search is tantamount to the rejection of life. . According to Socrates, dialogue and the dialectic (question-answer) method of defining concepts are necessary conditions for a joint search for truth. The Socratic Dialogue and Dialectic method assumes the freedom of a person and is based on the democratic idea that man is a responsible being, capable of knowing the truth and making decisions at his own peril and risk. Through the "test" of irony, Socrates exposed the unjustified claims of omniscience and infallibility, overthrowing all imaginary, pseudo-serious and all sorts of false authorities. Socratic irony is a search for true and positive, a call for a truly serious and significant, for their constant ordeal. Socrates proclaimed: virtue is knowledge. But not all knowledge in general, but only good and evil, knowledge that leads to right, virtuous deeds. On this basis, he came to the conclusion that no one is angry at will, but only out of ignorance. The ethical paradoxes of Socrates marked the beginning of the ongoing and to this day controversy about the relationship of knowledge and virtue. The idea of Socrates about self-knowledge, popular in the period of antiquity, often became the leading idea at the turning points of history and significantly changed the way people thought. Socrates, who spoke of the impossibility of final knowledge about something (“I know that I do not know anything”), was equally known as the fact that a person is able to acquire knowledge and multiply it, as well as that knowledge and “art” by themselves - great power. However, he was convinced that this power could be used both for the good and to the detriment of man. According to his teaching, if a person did not make the question of self-knowledge, the alternative to good and evil, while consciously preferring good, any other knowledge — for all their usefulness — would not make a person happy if he did not make his main issue. Moreover, they can make him miserable. It is not surprising, therefore, that Socrates' doctrine of self-knowledge is in close connection with the discussions that have been conducted lately not only in philosophical and scientific circles, but also among wide circles of intelligentsia both in our country and around the world around the problems of “man - science - technology, "science - ethics - humanism". The themes of these discussions echo the Socratic understanding of the task of philosophy and the value of knowledge in general. These discussions and discussions are often accompanied by direct and indirect references to the teachings and personality of Socrates. And this is not by chance: polls, over which the ancient philosopher fought, did not lose relevance, which is why Socrates was and remains one of the eternal “companions” of humanity. Thus, the philosophy of Socrates not only made a great impression on his contemporaries and students, but also had a noticeable influence on the entire subsequent history of philosophical and political thought.

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